In Reply to: I believe the kernel of the writers' purpose is stated by, "the CD standard is perfectly adequate". posted by clarkjohnsen on October 17, 2007 at 10:00:15:
"a given CD will sound different when played back on various transports"
This is just one of your many assertions that could be proven easily if it were true, but has never been tested by its supporters because it won't hold up.
"neither actual tape nor actual CD was employed, rather a thingamabob circuit that was said to mimic "the CD standard". This was a sonically unevaluated, hence glaringly misguided element of the setup."
We have already specified exactly what the device was. Astonishingly, given that I know you are of above average intelligence, you still haven't grasped that the purpose of the whole experiment was to evaluate it sonically. The result over 500+ trials is that it has no audible signature, an outcome you seem unwilling to consider.
"...no mention was made of acoustic polarity, which likely means that it was ignored."
I guess you really didn't read the paper after all, so maybe it will help if you run your eyes over the following very slowly: The experiment compared a high-bit source to a 16-bit, 44.1kHz encoded/decoded version of that source. The polarity of the source was whatever it was, but the recordings almost all sounded damn good (and we said so). The 16/44.1 processing loop was checked for polarity and is non-inverting, *as is stated in the paper*. (If it had been inverting, we shouldn't have gotten null results, according to your stated position, but never mind that.)
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Follow Ups
- RE: That clears up a lot! - EBradMeyer 10/20/0706:45:50 10/20/07 (12)
- RE: That clears up a lot! - morricab 09:34:37 10/23/07 (0)
- RE: We have already specified exactly what the device was. - rick_m 13:19:05 10/20/07 (7)
- Check the BAS site - the info is there. /nt - truthseekerprime 10:40:20 10/23/07 (5)
- Thanks. - rick_m 13:53:25 10/23/07 (4)
- Do you mean, more discerning, because the quality is worse than it needs to be and yet still not audibly different? /nt - truthseekerprime 14:22:24 10/23/07 (3)
- Yes... - rick_m 16:51:53 10/23/07 (2)
- Out of curiosity, does the CD spec really say anything about dither? - truthseekerprime 04:44:38 10/24/07 (1)
- Don't know for sure... - rick_m 20:55:01 10/24/07 (0)
- Rotsa ruck! Doncha know, it sounds the same as *any* CD player. Take it from them. nt - clarkjohnsen 11:25:23 10/21/07 (0)
- "It won't hold up." That's good to know. Hey everybody! We're being told that CD players don't sound different! - clarkjohnsen 11:21:16 10/20/07 (2)
- RE: "It won't hold up." - EBradMeyer 12:00:32 10/23/07 (0)
- "That's what we want to know!" Maybe that's what _you_ want to know, but don't speak for anyone else. /nt - truthseekerprime 11:40:15 10/20/07 (0)